System Performance Engineer

Responsibilities

• Develop system performance benchmarks, methodologies, and policies to evaluate end-to-end product behavior.
• Profile and analyze performance across key product use cases and workloads using custom and industry-standard profiling tools.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to identify bottlenecks and drive performance optimizations across the software stack.
• Define high-level product KPIs and establish measurement frameworks to measure launch readiness and monitor performance.
• Measure and track metrics including system responsiveness, memory utilization, cold boot performance, and behavior under thermal or low battery constraints.
• Investigate field performance regressions and drive issues to resolution using data-driven analysis.

Requirements

• Deep experience shipping embedded or high-performance systems on Linux, Android, or iOS devices.
• Strong proficiency in C/C++, Python, or Rust.
• Exceptional operating systems fundamentals, including process management, IPC, drivers, interrupts, and power management.
• Proven track record shipping real-time systems operating under tight latency, power, and memory constraints.
• Expertise with profiling and debugging tools such as Perfetto, GDB, LLDB, perf, ftrace, or Instruments.
• Experience building instrumentation, analytics, and performance tuning frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with statistics, experimentation methodologies, or data science concepts.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with embedded software, camera, vision, audio, graphics, and hardware teams.
• Experience defining product KPIs and benchmarking methodologies for hardware products.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental leave and flexible PTO.
• Daily meals in our offices and meal delivery credits.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.

About the Company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Our Consumer Devices team is building a new generation of AI-powered products that seamlessly integrate hardware and software to create intuitive, transformative experiences.